Steely Dan Aja Songs

Steely dan hadn t been a real working band since pretzel logic but with aja walter becker and donald fagen s obsession with sonic detail and fascination with composition reached new heights.

Steely dan aja songs. Leaders donald fagan and walter becker enlisted an all star crew of jazz rock players drummer steve gadd and saxophonist wayne shorter among them to lend this album an urbane finesse and dark tinged sparkle. A coolly textured and immaculately produced collection of sophisticated jazz rock aja has none of the overt cynicism or self consciously challenging music that distinguished previous steely dan records. Definitely about pot and lsd the hill definitely san francisco s hippy hill just like dantex says and i think aja is an acronym for lsd just don t know what the letters in their minds stand for. The soft jazz filled hit deacon blues may as well be steely dan s theme song at least for the characters fagen and becker inhabited on record.

Aja is a jazz rock song with elements of jazz fusion and progressive rock by the american rock band steely dan by that time walter becker and donald fagen from the album of the same name their sixth studio album released in 1977. Aja ˈ eɪ ʒ ə pronounced like asia is the sixth studio album by the american jazz rock band steely dan it was released in september 1977 by abc records recording alongside nearly 40 musicians band leaders donald fagen and walter becker pushed steely dan further into experimenting with different combinations of session players while pursuing longer more sophisticated compositions. Aja was the first british top 10 hit for steely dan and was also the first album by becker and fagen as a duo. A work of immaculate craft and insinuating wit 1977 s aja is perhaps the most fully realized album in steely dan s catalog.

Aja however was to prove to be the biggest selling album of steely dan s illustrious career reaching number 3 in the u s. Steely dan had tons of disguised drug lyrics and references in their songs. The album features contributions from several notable jazz musicians such as joe sample lee ritenour dean. Steely dan have several songs with a far east influence since donald fagen believes it is a symbol of sensuality.

From the lp aja pronounced asia please subscribe. Deacon blues aja 1977.